Sunday Night Indian

Last night I made two more recipes from Dakshin: "Standard Sambar" and "Potato Masala". The potato masala was familiar from Indian restaurants, but the sambar is something new.

We were supposed to use red ("toor") dal in the sambar, but I somehow ended up with something completely different (moth peas). So we made the sambar with the moth peas.

For the vegetable in the sambar I used drumstick, which we got frozen at the Indian grocery. Drumstick seems to be related to okra. It's pretty funny to prepare food that is completely new, using ingredients that are also different - Andrea had to google for what the hell we were supposed to do with the drumstick. :-)

Anyway, we have no real way of evaluating how "right" the results were, but both Andrea and I thought the food was great. And that's all that really matters.